Category: Soapworld

  Actor Gerard McCarthy has confirmed he will make a brief return to the Channel Four soap Hollyoaks. Actor Gerard McCarthy has confirmed he will make a brief return to the Channel Four soap Hollyoaks. The actor played cross-dresser Kris Fisher in Hollyoaks but left the series earlier this year to concentrate on other work – he has since landed […]

  Writer Arthur Bernard Lewis, perhaps best remembered for writing duties on Dallas, has died at the age of 84. Writer Arthur Bernard Lewis, perhaps best remembered for writing duties on Dallas, has died at the age of 84. He worked on the CBS ‘super-soap’ between 1978 and 1985 penning over 63 episodes including arguably the biggest storyline of the […]

  Actress Adele Silva is returning to ITV’s soap Emmerdale to reprise her role of Kelly Windsor. Actress Adele Silva is returning to ITV’s soap Emmerdale to reprise her role of Kelly Windsor. The actress will reprise her role of Kelly starting from next year though there are, as yet, no details on why/how her character will return. It was […]

  It’s seven years this week since Brookside Close was facing its on-screen demolition and Jimmy Corkhill ‘closed’ the cul-de-sac for the final time. However the fans of the soap have not forgotten the series as it marks its 28th anniversary today, as Lee Brady of the leading fansite for the show explains in this special article.       […]

As we reported in September, former Brookside star Vince Earl [pictured far left with the rest of the ‘Dixon family’] had been battling Goodpastures Syndrome, but as the soap reaches its 28th anniversary its good news we can report on the 66-year-old actor. He arrived as mobile shop owner Ron Dixon on the Brookside Close in 1990 and soon had […]

Star of stage and screen Gerard Kelly has died aged 51. It is believed that Kelly died in hospital after collapsing at his home earlier this week. He had starred in a number of television shows including Brookside, in which he played bad boy Callum Finnegan in the late 90s and was at the centre of the Millennium Club explosion […]

  Living has confirmed to ATV Today that it has no plans to air the American daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful. Living has confirmed to ATV Today that it has no plans to air the American daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful. Until September the soap was shown on Diva TV in the UK but the digital […]